As snow was starting to fall last Friday evening, the Germantown Academy girls were able to taking control early in the game on to win 61-24 over visiting Springside Chestnut Hill.
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As snow was starting to fall last Friday evening, the Germantown Academy girls were able to get in an Inter-Ac basketball game, taking control early on the way to a 61-24 win over visiting Springside Chestnut Hill.
Junior Kendall Bennett, a 6'2" post player, led the Patriots with a double-double, accumulating 17 points and 10 rebounds. Guard Izzy Casey chalked up 13 points for the victors, and her sophomore classmates Sam Wade (five assists, five steals) and Jessica Aponik scored nine apiece.
A 13-point showing by eighth-grade guard Mikaiya Durham paced the SCH Blue Devils, who also received six points from sophomore forward Zahkiyyah Frazier.
GA reached double-digits in the win column with a 10-6 overall record while improving to 4-2 within the Inter-Ac League. Springside slipped to 3-9, 2-6.
It was the only league game of the week for GA, which had lost Monday's non-league contest against Archbishop Carroll, 66-53.
The previous Friday, GA's victory over Penn Charter pulled PC back down into a tie for first place with the Academy of Notre Dame, each team having one loss in the Inter-Ac (Charter beat Notre Dame head-to-head on January 19). On that same Friday (January 21), Springside Chestnut Hill secured its second win of the season over last-place Agnes Irwin.
The Blue Devils had a tougher schedule last week, when Friday's setback at GA was preceded by a clash with one of the league leaders. SCH fell to Penn Charter on Tuesday, 65-37.
In other games last Friday, the Quakers and the Notre Dame Irish remained at the top of the Inter-Ac standings as PC won at Episcopal, 47-32, while AND rolled past Agnes Irwin, 53-16.
At GA last Friday the visitors were actually first on the board as SCH junior Faith Scally canned a jumper from the left baseline. A lay-up by Aponik got the Patriots going, then Bennett added two made free throws on two trips to the foul line.
After freshman Gabby Bowes converted off of a rebound and Casey hit a jumper for Germantown, the Blue Devils called time-out, trailing 8-2 less than two-and-a-half minutes into the game. The visitors were only able to add a lone point from the free throw line (by senior Layla Sawyer) during the remainder of the first quarter.
Eight points from Bennett had paced the Patriots to a 23-3 lead.
Aponik had hit a three-pointer late in the opening period, and a trey by Bowes began the second round. Springside's offense was more productive, with Durham depositing a lay-up and a jumper and Scally and Frazier adding field goals.
Casey put in two jump shots for GA, which outscored SCH 12-8 in the period for a 35-11 halftime lead.
In the second half GA was able to experiment with various combinations of starters and reserve players. Freshman guard Jessica Kolecki, who had started in some games for the Patriots, had suffered a season-ending injury, but SCH was missing four players, two of them regular starters.
Germantown's lead grew by three points in the third quarter and by 10 in the fourth, setting the final margin at 37.
Bowes wound up with seven points for the winners, freshman CeeJay Thomas had five points and eight rebounds, and Aponik's twin sister, Jenna, added a point from the foul line.
